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Maple Brown-Abbott portfolio manager Phillip Hudak named Qualitas as his micro-cap pick for 2025.

Five ASX micro-cap stocks fund managers are buying

A miner, a telco and two technology darlings are among the micro-caps stocks fundies have named for 2025.

  • Joshua Peach
Bank of America forecasts that the S&P 500 will end 2025 at 6666 – a rough 10 per cent advance.

ASX to rise on prospect for bolder China stimulus, Wall St slips

Australian shares are set to open higher. BHP, Rio surge in New York. Iron ore, oil, gold gain. Bitcoin stumbles. Nvidia drags Nasdaq lower.

  • Timothy Moore

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ANZ’s risky new CEO; Assads ‘like mafia’; ‘Shoebox’ fetches $850k

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Roland Houghton was ecstatic when Life360 announced a new revenue stream.

How Milford trebled its money on this ASX tech darling

Fund manager Roland Houghton talks Life360, painful trades, and what he’s expecting for the year ahead.

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  • Cecile Lefort

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Fund managers say that the so-called Santa rally is expanding into consumer discretionary stocks like retail.

ASX to slip, but investors eye cheery Christmas as Santa rally expands

Despite the optimism from the surge in finance and technology stocks infecting other sectors, the ASX 200 is expected to slip 0.3 per cent on Monday.

  • Joanne Tran
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Annual general meetings give shareholders a chance to meet directors, and to ask them hard questions.

Wine, coffee and shortbread biscuits: Inside this year’s AGM season

“Why can’t you pay dividends in gold instead of cash?” one investor asked the mining company’s board. “I want to hang a chunk from a necklace.”

  • Mark Wembridge
Bank of America forecasts that the S&P 500 will end 2025 at 6666 – a rough 10 per cent advance.

S&P 500 resets record closing high for 57th time

The record run higher in US equities is intact after November’s jobs report reassured investors that the Fed is still on track to cut rates this month.

  • Timothy Moore
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Synagogue attacked; AusSuper’s $1 trillion woe; Murdoch Christmas bash

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Bank of America forecasts that the S&P 500 will end 2025 at 6666 – a rough 10 per cent advance.

ASX to slip, Wall St edge down with payrolls awaited

Australian shares are set for modest opening losses. November US jobs data in focus. Bitcoin slides below $US100,000.

  • Timothy Moore
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Victoria’s asset sale; MinRes’ gag request; Wesfarmers’ rates alert

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Chris Hulls, centre, as Life360 makes its public market debut in New York.

The ASX’s founders are in dump mode

Insiders are cashing out hundreds of millions of dollars of stocks after stellar share price runs. Are they sending a message?

  • Jonathan Shapiro
US equities’ dominance forecast to extend into 2025.

ASX to edge up, S&P 500 and Nasdaq lift on techs

Australian shares are set to open modestly higher. The magnificent seven power ahead. Iren surges, Atlassian leaps on Amazon deal. Bitcoin rallies.

  • Timothy Moore
From left: Vihari Ross from Antipodes Partners, Chanel Stuart-Findlay from Plato Investment Management, Julia Weng from Paradice Investment, First Sentier’s Dawn Kanelleas, Airlie’s Emma Fisher, Northcape Capital’s Fleur Wright, Jun Bei Lei from Tribeca Investment Partners, Catherine Allfrey of Wavestone Capital and Armina Rosenberg from Minotaur Capital.

Why Australia’s newest fund may have an edge over rivals

Some of the nation’s best money managers have lined up to drive Future Generation’s latest vehicle, which Geoff Wilson tips could gather billions in assets.

  • Joshua Peach
US equities’ dominance forecast to extend into 2025.

ASX to slip, S&P 500 edges up, bitcoin swings

Australian shares are set to open lower. US equities were turning modestly positive late. Apple extends advance. South Korean assets drop.

  • Timothy Moore
Strong retail sales into Christmas have buoyed investor sentiment for the sharemarket.

Sharemarket tops 8500 as Santa rally kicks off

The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index reset a record close for the fourth time in eight days on Tuesday, buoyed by optimism around the Black Friday Sales.

  • Joanne Tran
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Woolworth workers on a picket line outside the company’s distribution centre in Dandenong South on Monday.

Woolworths strike bill tops $50m as disruption spreads to Dan Murphy’s

The nation’s largest supermarket operator has applied for an urgent tribunal order to keep unions from blocking access to distribution sites in Victoria and NSW.

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  • Carrie LaFrenz and David Marin-Guzman
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ASX tops 8500; ZIP founder sells $100m in shares; Woolies loses $50m

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ASX to rise, Apple resets record high as techs rally

Australian shares are set to open higher. The Nasdaq paced gains in New York as the megacap techs advanced. US dollar stronger. Bitcoin struggled.

  • Timothy Moore
Star stock picker Rajiv Jain is for the first time on the back foot over his $US10 billion bet on Adani.

Investors pull $1.5b from GQG amid Adani allegations

The Adani bribery charges have sparked a “snap change” in client flows for the fund manager and research analysts are cutting their price targets.

  • Alex Gluyas and Jonathan Shapiro
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ASX nears record; Northern Star’s $5b deal; Telstra buys Boost Mobile

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